Numbers 18:32
And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
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Pollute
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Daniel 11:31
And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
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7 occurrences in 7 verses.
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חָלַל
châlal · khaw-lal'
8 times translated as this KJV form141 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an 'opening wedge'); to play (the flute)
Strong's KJV usage: begin (× men began), defile, × break, defile, × eat (as common things), × first, × gather the grape thereof, × take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
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Strong's first: Numbers 18:32Strong's last: Daniel 11:31
Open full H2490 profile →טָמֵא
ṭâmêʼ · taw-may'
2 times translated as this KJV form161 total Strong's occurrences
to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)
Strong's KJV usage: defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, × utterly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 7:30Strong's last: Ezekiel 20:31
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chânêph · khaw-nafe'
1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to soil, especially in a moral sense
Strong's KJV usage: corrupt, defile, × greatly, pollute, profane.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 35:33Strong's last: Numbers 35:33
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H2490
And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
H2610
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
H2930
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
H2490
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
H2490
My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
H2490
And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?
H2930
For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.
H2490
As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
H2490
So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
H2490
In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
H2490
And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
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pollute
POLLU'TE, v.t. [L. polluo; polluceo and possideo.]
1. To defile; to make foul or unclean; in a general sense. But appropriately, among the Jews, to make unclean or impure, in a legal or ceremonial sense, so as to disqualify a person for sacred services, or to render things unfit for sacred uses. Num.18. Ex.20. 2 Kings 23. 2 Chron.36.2. To taint with guilt. Ye pollute yourselves with all your idols. Ezek.20.3. To profane; to use for carnal or idolatrous purposes. My sabbaths they greatly polluted. Ezek.20.4. To corrupt or impair by mixture of ill, moral or physical. Envy you my praise, and would destroy With grief my pleasures, and pollute my joy?5. To violate by illegal sexual commerce.POLLU'TE, a. Polluted; defiled.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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